Stephen Dinan

Majority of Americans believe COVID-19 came from Chinese lab: Poll

The majority of Americans now believe that COVID-19 sprang from a Chinese lab, according to a new poll that shows recent work by the FBI and the Energy Department has swayed the public.

March 8, 2023

Sobbing spring: Feds struggle to fill seats for ‘ecogrief’ training session

The Fish and Wildlife Service's "ecogrief" training is more widespread than originally thought, having already been conducted in "many" of the agency's regions, according to an internal email obtained by The Washington Times.

March 8, 2023

Immigration activists rip Biden over get-tough border proposal

Immigrant rights advocates blasted the Biden administration Tuesday after a report that Homeland Security is thinking of reviving detention of illegal alien families to stem an expected migrant surge at the border this spring.

March 7, 2023

Jordan subpoenas DHS’ ousted disinformation chief, school board officials who challenged parents

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan issued a subpoena Monday to Nina Jankowicz, the woman who first led then was ousted from the Homeland Security Department's disinformation board.

March 6, 2023

Biden loses footing with Republicans now in power

President Biden's reversal on a House GOP-led measure exposed a White House still struggling to figure out how to operate in a Washington where Republicans have partial control over the agenda.

March 5, 2023

ICE paid millions to leave detention beds empty: inspector general

Homeland Security's migrant detention agency paid more than $8 million for detention beds that went unused in a Louisiana facility, the department's inspector general said in a new report that also blasted the jail for filthy conditions and overly strict rules.

March 4, 2023

MS-13’s smuggling operations in Mexico help gang members reach U.S.: DOJ

MS-13 has expanded its operations into Mexico, running migrant smuggling routes in order to make money and be able to send reinforcements into the U.S. to replace gang members who get arrested or deported, according to federal prosecutors.

March 2, 2023

Biden gets tough on pandemic fraud; promises more money, time to prosecute scammers

President Biden is proposing more money to go after pandemic fraudsters, and calling on Congress to pass legislation giving investigators and prosecutors more time to bring criminal cases and new powers to recover money from those they can't prosecute.

March 2, 2023

Sen. Tom Cotton challenges U.S. asylum policy, says New Orleans more dangerous than Honduras

Sen. Tom Cotton challenged the Biden administration's more lenient asylum policies Wednesday, saying the U.S. is now allowing people to claim protection if they come from countries that are, on the whole, safer than some major American cities.

March 1, 2023

Scammer filed unemployment claim in name of feds’ top investigator

The government's top investigator was testifying to Congress when he made a startling revelation: Someone had used his identity to apply for pandemic unemployment benefits.

March 1, 2023

Border Patrol agent accidentally shot smuggling suspect, federal officials say

A Border Patrol agent was trying to arrest a migrant smuggling suspect when his gun fired, striking the man in the arm.

March 1, 2023

Equal Rights Amendment stumbles in court and on Capitol Hill

The Equal Rights Amendment suffered twin setbacks this week after a federal appeals court shot down an effort to force it into the Constitution, and the nominee to lead the National Archives reaffirmed she won't act on her own to add it to the government's founding document.

March 1, 2023

Supreme Court signals skepticism of Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan

Supreme Court justices expressed skepticism Tuesday over President Biden's student loan forgiveness plan, with the court's GOP-appointed members raising questions of fairness and wondering why Congress wasn't consulted on a $400 billion program.

February 28, 2023

Supreme Court rules in MoneyGram case; first majority opinion by Justice Jackson

The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday in favor of states that say financial instruments that are abandoned should go to the states where they were purchased, not to where the company that sold them is located.

February 28, 2023

House GOP probing illegal immigrant teen who committed MS-13 murder

House Republicans opened a probe Tuesday into a case where authorities say an MS-13 gang member -- who reportedly came to the U.S. as a child -- murdered a woman.

February 28, 2023

Rep. Matt Gaetz: GOP doesn’t have the votes to impeach Mayorkas

Republicans don't have the votes to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, according to Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida, a key lawmaker pushing the effort.

February 27, 2023

Taliban comb Kabul records to hunt down U.S. war allies

Operatives of the new Taliban government in Kabul are still trying to identify and retaliate against Afghans who cooperated with the 20-year American military and reconstruction effort, a U.S. government report said.

February 27, 2023

Supreme Court to hear challenge to Elizabeth Warren’s Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

The Supreme Court announced Monday it would hear a challenge to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in a case that could determine whether Democrats violated the Constitution in creating a "Wall Street cop" after the 2008 financial collapse.

February 27, 2023

The tragedy of Jesse Dean: Detainee died in ICE custody while waiting to go home

The Department of Homeland Security's medical personnel bungled the care for a Bahamian man in custody, mistreating a gastrointestinal problem that eventually cost him his life, an inspector general has concluded.

February 26, 2023

Illegal immigrants taking beds from local residents in Arizona hospital

The main hospital in Yuma, Arizona, put a price tag on the border crisis, with its officials telling lawmakers Thursday that it spent $26 million last year on uncompensated care for the wave of illegal immigrants who threaten to swamp the facility.

February 23, 2023